Big Prayer Day Photo

Photographer’s Note

Here is a traditional Danish church on a religious holiday - notice anything missing? With the exception of Christmas and Easter, Danes aren't terribly interested in religious holidays.

This is Great Prayer Day. It is a holiday created by the renowned king Christian the 4th in 1686. The way most Danes tell the story is that the king got tired of all the minor church holidays, so he collected them all in one day - Great Prayer Day, to simplify things. I guess one could say it worked - no one is celebrating the other holidays anymore, but beyond having a national holiday, one would wonder if anyone is celebrating Great Prayer Day. Notice the empty parking lot?

bobocortis, Kielia, roges, fanni, ruisc_pt, trekks, axiotea, PixelTerror has marked this note useful

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nirvana73 (8614) 2009-05-14 10:50

Hello Kate
very nice traditional Danish Church
i like architecture and ellow colors
thanks for sharing and explanations
best regards
Ozhan

bobocortis (14136) 2009-05-14 10:51

Hello Kate.
Trully a curious colorful building.
The shot is well done, with a well-decentered danish flag.
Kind regards.
Bobo.

AKITA (5230) 2009-05-14 19:13

dear Kate,
an interesting design and vividly colored building, inded,
this church was built at rather old time or relatively recent?
from the window of the airplane, it maybe very eye-catching, also from the heaven...
step-shape side walls are your traditional design? those look having something meanings.
thank you,
Akihisa

JanP (1629) 2009-05-15 2:54

Hi Kate.
Wonderful composed picture. Warm, higly saturated colors and the soft curves/lines on the ground. Excellent contrast to the greenish. I really like this one.
Peaceful!
Have a nice weekend.
Jan

Kielia (8373) 2009-05-15 11:04

Hi Kate,
I really appreciate your impressions from daily life in Denmark and your interesting notes.
The image is beautifully composed with the danebrog catching the attention. I like it a lot! TFS!
Warm regards
Harriet

roges (1204) 2009-05-16 12:50

Hallo Kate !

Et meget interessant!
Nice sammensætning og afspilning af dette billede!
En stille aften,
Adrian

fanni (8733) 2009-05-17 1:33

Hello Kate,
very well composed photo! But the emptiness around...... is amazing! yes, the parking lot is empty...
The bright orange and red colours make the photo look rather unusual (at least, to me, because I have never seen a church of such colours!). The day seemed to be windy - judging by the Danish flag flapping in the wind :)
very colourful and interesting photo!
Wishing you a nice Sunday,
best regards,
Elena

ruisc_pt (6206) 2009-05-17 8:47

Interesting "jeux de coleurs".
I like the pov and the composition.
TFS
R

trekks (14262) 2009-05-25 3:19

hi Kate

:) Lovely colors!

A church? Hehe, I thought this is Legoland toys created by children!

Very neat and well presented composition.

Good work.

tfs, bill

axiotea (16027) 2009-05-28 10:10

Hello Kate
yes, it looks quite empty but there are no elements(like cars)to disturb this image ;)
'Happy' colors for this 'original' church which stands out perfectly against the pale sky.
Cheers
Marilyn

PixelTerror (86038) 2009-08-03 3:28

Hi KAte
An amazing church looking at the place and the colors, such warm colors on a church are fairly unusual, is it made of Legos ??? ;-)
Have a nice day JY

giorgimer (20990) 2009-09-08 13:18

Hi kate,

very nice architecture, beautiful colors, good POV

TFS

G

jmdias (19053) 2009-10-04 13:19

kate

in Brazil many religious holydays were extinct when the republic time arrived, then during the 1930's a new president recriated many of them, some time after, during the militar dictatorship (1964 to 1984)many of them were extinct again. anyway nowdays many people thinks we have so many holidays and this bring us many economical damages.
beautiful image, I liked the shapes and the colors of the church, they made a nice contrast with the greyish sky

hugs

jorge